Birmingham police execute search warrant, dig up yard in search of mother who disappeared in 2014

A more than 10-year search for a missing mother led investigators to a Birmingham home Thursday.

Kierra Stubbs was 23 when she disappeared on April 24, 2014.

A mother of two young children, she got into a vehicle with a man who had promised to help her with her car and has not been seen or heard from since.

On Thursday morning, Birmingham detectives executed a search warrant at a residence in the 4600 block of Terrace S. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office also assisted in the search, which included authorities digging in the home’s yard.

Both the police and the coroner said the search was unsuccessful.

“During the search, we did not find human remains,” Officer Truman Fitzgerald said in a Friday press release. “We cannot begin to imagine the challenges and anguish Kierra’s family has faced over the last 10 years.”

Fitzgerald’s release followed widespread speculation on social media that Stubbs’ remains had been found.

From 2014 to 2019, the case was handled by the Special Victims Unit and the homicide. Rodney Rogers, who has since retired.

Since 2019, Det. Jonathan Ross has taken over and is actively working on Stubbs’ case.

“It. Ross is committed to taking the necessary steps to resolve this matter,” Fitzgerald said.

On that day in 2014, the Birmingham mother, along with one of her brothers and her son, dropped off her younger sister and another brother at school.

They then went to the city’s Five Points West, where she met with a man at Boost Mobile to help her with her car. Surveillance video showed her getting into a burgundy 2012 Chrysler 200.

Her aunt, Shonte Stubbs, told AL.com in 2018 that the man would give Kierra Stubbs money to help get her brakes fixed.

She knew the man because she cut his children’s hair and had talked to him and they had talked on the phone.

When she met him, there was some kind of conversation, and then her niece got into the Chrysler.

She was never heard from again.

Stubbs worked in restaurants and was close to his family.

“She was a sweet, funny, loving person,” her aunt previously said.

“She loved her family. She loved her kids. That’s all she wanted to do — work and spend time with her family.”

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Ross at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777. Crime Stoppers pays tipsters cash rewards of up to $5,000 for their tips.